{"id":29426,"date":"2017-08-14T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=29426"},"modified":"2017-08-13T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T23:24:04","slug":"endoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/endoscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-rigid Endoscope Inspection Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t had this long, and I don’t know if it’s the “best” one, but I write this because it really fills a niche and others may not have realized this kind of thing is available. It’s a tiny camera (with some lights) on the end of a flexible but somewhat stiff stalk that’s 16.5 feet long<\/a>. There are a bunch of “tool” versions of these at the Big Box building stores, but this version uses things you already have for the viewer. Specifically, a computer or a smartphone (is there any other kind these days?). So rather than spending over $100 on a dedicated borescope tool (charging, sorta big case, expensive), the one I selected from Amazon (there are lots!) has a bendable stalk (rather than too loose and floppy, didn’t need that), and works simply in either my phone (simple app for that) or my laptop (rather than a special program, I just use Yawcam<\/a>, a freebie). <\/p>\n

So, I can take this coiled camera with me, small enough to stash in a kit, and have a way to see things that I could not see before. Not always necessary but a simple way to overcome visibility issues at a reasonable cost. It’s submersible too, if you need that. <\/p>\n

In my kit, I also have an inspection mirror, for the handy low-tech method too. For the $22 spent, this is a pretty cheap thing to experiment with, and it works. I’d love to hear if others have found models that are better – this is the only one I’ve tried (after wading through Amazon reviews), so there are lots more of these to consider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Small camera mounted to a bendable semi-rigid cable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29429,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29426\/revisions\/29429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}